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yzboy85

yzboy85

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So this morning I started my car, went to take off down the road and didn't get more than a couple hundred yards before I suddenly lost power. I pulled over to the side of the road, turned into a driveway to turn around and as soon as I put it in reverse and gave her gas she died. Tried it a few more times and the same result. Eventually I was able to get her turned around, but she was jerking all over the place. Drove the rest of the way home at like 20mph and she was just lurching forward, any gas I gave her the rpm went down before jerking forward again.

I parked her and got out and there is kind of a grinding noise (sounds a little like a circular saw cutting through wood sort of) every once in a while from the rear half of the car, the engine itself sounds/looks fine, but whenever I try to give her gas the rpms drop before they go up.

What is this? I'm guessing my tranny is just gone and I should start shopping around for another one, but I figured I'd ask here first..There was nothing wrong with her until this morning, she pulled hard and shifted fine, tranny fluid looks a little old but not too brown...probably the original fluid though, I was planning on changing it this weekend...no engine codes apart from a bad MAF sensor..

Any help would be appreciated. Want to know what I'm dealing with before moving forward.
 


um wow, yeah I feel like an idiot cause she goes fine with the MAF unplugged....I have absolute NO idea that sensor could make it behave like that holy crap

side note though the weird grinding noise is still there, guess its an unrelated thing that I happened to notice at the same time, seems like its coming from my driver side muffler? unless somehow that has to do with the MAF as well lol
 
I can't think how that could be maf related... but we can definately get you up and running again when you mention bad maf. Don't feel bad, we all learn
 
well that noise was just an unhappy coincidence that made me jump to conclusions I guess, lol, plus I had been driving with the bad MAF for a couple days cause I didn't know it could do something like it did this morning
 
The grinding noise might be the muffler rattling if it's loose...There's not really anything moving back there when the car is idling.
 


Maybe you have a better description of the grinding noise in another thread but I'll throw out that it could be a heat shield above your exhaust. They rattle and make some terrible noises.
 
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